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13 March – 19 March

Monday 13 March

Past Sessions

174
KIDsVAI Train-the-trainers session to break gender stereotypes in STEM
WOMENVAI and Swiss Engineering Geneva
WOMENVAI, SE GE
09:00 – 09:45 (UTC+01:00) Innovate Stage
Since over five years, our Swiss partner Swiss Engineering Geneva has experienced a few workshops in classrooms at primary schools in Geneva, targeting young girls and boys aged 10-12 years. The objective is to raise awareness on gender stereotypes…
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ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming Open Space Talks
181
Strengthening the Collaboration of Digital Literacy for Disabilities
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Indonesia
Indonesia
09:15 – 10:15 (UTC+01:00) Room F
A survey conducted by the Central Statistics Bureau (BPS) Indonesia reveals that the number of people with disabilities in Indonesia reached around 22.5 million people in 2022. This number has increased from 2021 which amounted to 16.5 million.…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and Specific Needs Country Workshop
245
How to take care of your elderly parents when you are living far from them? Showcase of the best ICTs innovation
HiNounou, awarded as 2022 WSIS Healthy Ageing Innovation Winner.
HiNounou
11:00 – 11:45 (UTC+01:00) Room 11+12
In 2020, for the first time of human history, elderlies outnumbered children. The number is projected to grow by 40% before 2030 up to 1.4 Billion and will reach 2 billion older adults in 2050. Among them, 80% are living in low and medium income…
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Session recording available ICTs and Older Persons Thematic Workshop
392
Online Visibility of Women in Parliament
Omuka Hub
Omuka Hub
16:45 – 17:45 (UTC+01:00) Room F
The Theme for this year's International Women's Day is "DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality", and to achieve true gender equality we need to have more women in politics online. Why is this important? Women in Parliament do…
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Session recording available ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming Thematic Workshop

Thursday 16 March

Past Sessions

185
Sustaining relevant digital inclusive education for young people (5-18 years of age)
International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP
09:00 – 09:45 (UTC+01:00) Room B
The aim of the IFIP Task Force is to explore how “Sustaining relevant digital inclusive education for young people (5-18 years of age)” has been and can be achieved in countries and locations internationally. In this workshop, members of the Task…
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Session recording available ICTs and Youth Thematic Workshop
187
Combatting Non Consensual Intimate Image Abuse (NCII)
SWGfL
SWGfL
09:00 – 09:45 (UTC+01:00) Inspire Stage
StopNCII.org is a free tool that supports adults who are victims of Non-Consensual Intimate Image (NCII) abuse. Often referred to in the media as Revenge Porn, NCII is a catastrophic form of abuse that destroys lives (both sharing or the threat to…
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ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming Open Space Talks
406
Gender Mainstreaming Knowledge Café: the Importance of Role Models in Tech
WSIS
WSIS
15:00 – 15:45 (UTC+01:00) Collaborate Stage
The WSIS Process affirms the importance of promoting and maintaining gender equality and women empowerment, guaranteeing the inclusion of women in the emerging global ICT society, and emphasizes the need to fully integrate gender equality…
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ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming Knowledge Café
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